Merchants, markets and manufacture
Subtitle: the English wool textile industry in the eighteenth century
By: John Smail
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Wool industry -- England -- History -- 18th century; Textile industry -- England -- History -- 18th century; England -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
Description: "This book explores the causes and nature of the industrial revolution through a comparative study of the main wool textile manufacturing regions of England. Based on extensive archival research and including several new or little-known sources, it addresses many of the current debates in economic history and eighteenth-century studies by examining how the interplay between merchants, markets and producers shaped the pace and character of economic growth during the eighteenth century.

Particular attention is paid to the rapid growth of product innovation and the export trade as both of these factors affected evolving structures of marketing and production."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-191) and index